Cape Fear
A violent criminal, Max Cady (Robert De Niro), is released from prison after 14 years. Cady hunts down his former defence attorney (Nick Nolte) and starts to terrorize his family […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Blog: 5 Luckiest Saves
Our hero is cornered. There’s no way out. All hope is lost. Surely he has a plan? Well, usually he does, but sometimes screenwriters get their characters into such difficult […]
Kill Keith vs JCVD
To be able to laugh at oneself is an admirable trait, particularly when this involves poking fun at some historically un-stellar work. Here are two films that do just that, […]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis is the new movie from everyone’s favourite Hollywood siblings. The Coen brothers. Not the Olsen twins. This drama follows a week in the life of Llewyn Davis […]
Grudge Match
Two actors who should know better (Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone) play two boxers who should know better as they step into the ring to settle a long standing […]
West is West
On the list of films you didn’t expect to get the sequel treatment, East is East is high up the list, next to Donnie Darko and Psycho. But how does […]
Tyrannosaur
Tyrannosaur opens with a dog death and just gets bleaker from there. The violent and angry Joseph (Peter Mullan) meets the kind-hearted Hannah (Olivia Colman) and the two strike up a […]
The Curse of Frankenstein
In this 1957 Hammer adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee star as the hapless Baron Frankenstein and his gruesome monster respectively. What will follow from fanatical Frankenstein constructing […]
Monsterpiece Theater: Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me
Sesame Street does David Lynch, in the Monsterpiece Theater adaptation of Twin Peaks. The Film Alistair Cookie’s version is an homage to the TV show, but let’s stick to Fire Walk […]
Apocalypto
I’ve put off watching this for a while. If it’s any good an American director will remake it in English. Oh wait… Mayan certainly isn’t the most common of languages […]
Screen Goblin 